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''Film/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'' is a stage play put on film in 1981. It is based on Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz''
The protagonist is a native of Oz, an orphan called Tippetarius (or "Tip" for short). After escaping his abusive caretaker, the old witch Mombi, Tip sets out to seek his fortune along with his two companions: Jack Pumpkinhead and the Saw-Horse, both of which he created and brought to life with Mombi's "Powder of Life".
Tip must contend with General Jinjur, the commander of the all-female Army of Revolt, who means to attack Emerald City and take over Oz because she desires to have a woman in charge. Tip seeks out Princess Ozma, the daughter of the last kin, who disappeared as a baby. Tip eventually discovers that he himself is the princess he's been looking for. His sex had been changed to protect her identity. Tip transforms back into Ozma anda is acclaimed the ruler of Oz.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AdoptAServant: Mombi is Tip's guardian and has raised him since infancy, but she treats him like a slave.
* TheAllegedSteed: The Saw-horse, who has no joints in his legs and, at first at least, has no ears and can't follow directions, starts out as this. Later, he is revealed to be completely tireless and the fastest ride in Oz.
* AmazonBrigade: Both Jinjur's Army of Revolt and the army Glinda makes. Played with in that the former just ''thought'' they were; the Emerald City's army wouldn't hit a girl and was less than a match for Dorothy by herself anyway. Even so, the all-female armies in this book are the most effective armies in Baum's Oz books -- all the rest are either evil and menacing but are foiled before they do much harm, e.g. the Nome King's army; or are too small to be threatening (these will include exactly one private soldier, but may have a large number of officers who do not fight), e.g. the Army of Oz. Jinjur's and Glinda's armies are the only ones that accomplish the missions they set out to accomplish.
* AndThenWhat: The aftermath of Jinjur's conquest. She conquered the Emerald City, chiefly because there was no opposition... but she has no idea how to ''rule'' Oz.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: For Ozma, at the end of the book.
* ADayInHerApron: After Jinjur successfully took the throne, men were forced to do all the chores women were doing. They were unable to handle the stress of housework, and the women couldn’t stand their cooking.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jinjur's plan to lead feminist revolts in all the kingdoms ran into the slight snag that one of them was already completely matriarchal, heavily militarized, and good friends with the others. Oops.
* ExtremeOmnigoat: Referenced, with General Jinjur threatening to have the Tin Man fed to a goat.
* FoulFlower: The characters find themselves in a field of sunflowers, with spinning heads and a hypnotic gaze, with faces which look strangely like those of the Army of Revolt.
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Tip is really Princess Ozma, who was transformed into a boy when she was hidden away as an infant to make her harder to find.]]
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: Tip's quest to find the lost Princess Ozma requires, in the end, that they force out of the wicked witch Mombi the information that [[spoiler:Tip is Ozma, transformed into a boy.]]
* LadyLand: Jinjur tries to turn Oz into a Lady Land, forcing men to do all the cooking and housework while women live lives of leisure. [[spoiler: Her all-female army is defeated by Glinda the Good’s all-female army, Princess Ozma takes the throne, and from then on the genders are basically equal in Oz.]]
* MenacingMask: Jack Pumpkinhead, the man which Tip builds out of wood and with a pumpkin head to scare Mombi. A face with a huge smile is carved into the head. Later, when Jack is brought to life, he is a melancholic character, and his fixed smile makes him all the more creepy to others. (This example might not strictly be a mask, but is about a fixed expression.)
* MenCantKeepHouse: Once order is restored and the women return to the kitchen, they cook such a delicious meal that all is forgiven.
-->And it is said that the women were so tired eating of their husbands' cooking that they all hailed the conquest of Jinjur with Joy.
* MosesInTheBulrushes: Ozma
* MuggleInMageCustody: A negative example. The main character Tip is raised by the wicked witch Mombi who constantly abuses him.
* MundaneWish: With the wishing pills, they could have wished to be teleported straight to Glinda, they would have wished for Jinjur's instant defeat, but instead they just wish for the Gump to be repaired so they can continue their journey.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Inverted; it's been suggested that, following the great success of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''[='=]s [[Theatre/TheWizardOfOz1902 stage adaptation]], Baum wrote this sequel with one eye on what would look good on stage. The element that's most often singled out is the Army of Revolt, composed of good-looking women whose uniforms are described in detail. Another element that may have been affected by the stage prospects is Tip turning out to really be female, since in a stage production a young boy would be played by a woman anyway. The emphasis on the Tin Man and the Scarecrow at the expense of the Lion and Dorothy reflects which characters had been most successful on stage. (In the event, the stage adaptation that followed a year later was a flop, at least partly because many of the people and elements that had made the first show such a success were unavailable because the show was still running.)
* PrincessProtagonist: [[spoiler:The FarmBoy Tip]] turns out to be the lost princess Ozma.
* PumpkinPerson: The book has a rare ''non''-evil version with Jack Pumpkinhead, who is basically a wooden scarecrow with a carved pumpkin head brought to life by a magic powder.
* RandomEventsPlot: Most everything that happens in the story either comes out of nowhere or has virtually no impact on anything that happens afterwards. Perhaps the best example is when the main characters accidentally fly out of Oz, land in a jackdaw nest, use some magical wish-granting pills to fly back to Oz, but forget to take the pills with them. What does this episode add to the story? The world may never know.
* RoyalBlood: Princess Ozma
* StrawFeminist: General Jinjur. Note this in contrast to the matriarchal army of the South, composed entirely of women, who came to overthrow her rule of the Emerald City. An army relying on your enemies not hitting girls had some serious drawbacks in retrospect. It is interesting to note that Baum's wife was herself the daughter of a prominent early feminist, Matilda Gage. Jinjur is an obvious poke at the sort of pie in the sky "suffragette" who thought feminism meant "women in charge" while preserving the DoubleStandard where it suited them.
* TakenForGranite: Tip escapes the clutches of the sorceress Mombi before she can turn him into a statue.
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Subverted; Tip openly recognizes himself as the "creator" of Jack Pumpkinhead, and does his best to look out for him when appropriate. He does feel uncomfortable with Jack's insistence in calling him "father".
* VelvetRevolution: General Jinjur's Army of Revolt overtake the Emerald City and force the Scarecrow to abdicate the throne using nothing but sewing needles and relying on the fact that Oz's (single person) army WouldntHitAGirl. A few people get poked with needles but that is the extent of the violence. Later in the story, [[spoiler: the armies of Glinda the Good surround the city in a standoff, but Jinjur surrenders without violence, allowing the rightful Princess Ozma to take the throne.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
''Film/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'' is a stage play put on film in 1981. It is based on Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz''
The protagonist is a native of Oz, an orphan called Tippetarius (or "Tip" for short). After escaping his abusive caretaker, the old witch Mombi, Tip sets out to seek his fortune along with his two companions: Jack Pumpkinhead and the Saw-Horse, both of which he created and brought to life with Mombi's "Powder of Life".
Tip must contend with General Jinjur, the commander of the all-female Army of Revolt, who means to attack Emerald City and take over Oz because she desires to have a woman in charge. Tip seeks out Princess Ozma, the daughter of the last kin, who disappeared as a baby. Tip eventually discovers that he himself is the princess he's been looking for. His sex had been changed to protect her identity. Tip transforms back into Ozma anda is acclaimed the ruler of Oz.
----
!!This film provides examples of:
* AdoptAServant: Mombi is Tip's guardian and has raised him since infancy, but she treats him like a slave.
* TheAllegedSteed: The Saw-horse, who has no joints in his legs and, at first at least, has no ears and can't follow directions, starts out as this. Later, he is revealed to be completely tireless and the fastest ride in Oz.
* AmazonBrigade: Both Jinjur's Army of Revolt and the army Glinda makes. Played with in that the former just ''thought'' they were; the Emerald City's army wouldn't hit a girl and was less than a match for Dorothy by herself anyway. Even so, the all-female armies in this book are the most effective armies in Baum's Oz books -- all the rest are either evil and menacing but are foiled before they do much harm, e.g. the Nome King's army; or are too small to be threatening (these will include exactly one private soldier, but may have a large number of officers who do not fight), e.g. the Army of Oz. Jinjur's and Glinda's armies are the only ones that accomplish the missions they set out to accomplish.
* AndThenWhat: The aftermath of Jinjur's conquest. She conquered the Emerald City, chiefly because there was no opposition... but she has no idea how to ''rule'' Oz.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: For Ozma, at the end of the book.
* ADayInHerApron: After Jinjur successfully took the throne, men were forced to do all the chores women were doing. They were unable to handle the stress of housework, and the women couldn’t stand their cooking.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jinjur's plan to lead feminist revolts in all the kingdoms ran into the slight snag that one of them was already completely matriarchal, heavily militarized, and good friends with the others. Oops.
* ExtremeOmnigoat: Referenced, with General Jinjur threatening to have the Tin Man fed to a goat.
* FoulFlower: The characters find themselves in a field of sunflowers, with spinning heads and a hypnotic gaze, with faces which look strangely like those of the Army of Revolt.
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Tip is really Princess Ozma, who was transformed into a boy when she was hidden away as an infant to make her harder to find.]]
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: Tip's quest to find the lost Princess Ozma requires, in the end, that they force out of the wicked witch Mombi the information that [[spoiler:Tip is Ozma, transformed into a boy.]]
* LadyLand: Jinjur tries to turn Oz into a Lady Land, forcing men to do all the cooking and housework while women live lives of leisure. [[spoiler: Her all-female army is defeated by Glinda the Good’s all-female army, Princess Ozma takes the throne, and from then on the genders are basically equal in Oz.]]
* MenacingMask: Jack Pumpkinhead, the man which Tip builds out of wood and with a pumpkin head to scare Mombi. A face with a huge smile is carved into the head. Later, when Jack is brought to life, he is a melancholic character, and his fixed smile makes him all the more creepy to others. (This example might not strictly be a mask, but is about a fixed expression.)
* MenCantKeepHouse: Once order is restored and the women return to the kitchen, they cook such a delicious meal that all is forgiven.
-->And it is said that the women were so tired eating of their husbands' cooking that they all hailed the conquest of Jinjur with Joy.
* MosesInTheBulrushes: Ozma
* MuggleInMageCustody: A negative example. The main character Tip is raised by the wicked witch Mombi who constantly abuses him.
* MundaneWish: With the wishing pills, they could have wished to be teleported straight to Glinda, they would have wished for Jinjur's instant defeat, but instead they just wish for the Gump to be repaired so they can continue their journey.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Inverted; it's been suggested that, following the great success of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''[='=]s [[Theatre/TheWizardOfOz1902 stage adaptation]], Baum wrote this sequel with one eye on what would look good on stage. The element that's most often singled out is the Army of Revolt, composed of good-looking women whose uniforms are described in detail. Another element that may have been affected by the stage prospects is Tip turning out to really be female, since in a stage production a young boy would be played by a woman anyway. The emphasis on the Tin Man and the Scarecrow at the expense of the Lion and Dorothy reflects which characters had been most successful on stage. (In the event, the stage adaptation that followed a year later was a flop, at least partly because many of the people and elements that had made the first show such a success were unavailable because the show was still running.)
* PrincessProtagonist: [[spoiler:The FarmBoy Tip]] turns out to be the lost princess Ozma.
* PumpkinPerson: The book has a rare ''non''-evil version with Jack Pumpkinhead, who is basically a wooden scarecrow with a carved pumpkin head brought to life by a magic powder.
* RandomEventsPlot: Most everything that happens in the story either comes out of nowhere or has virtually no impact on anything that happens afterwards. Perhaps the best example is when the main characters accidentally fly out of Oz, land in a jackdaw nest, use some magical wish-granting pills to fly back to Oz, but forget to take the pills with them. What does this episode add to the story? The world may never know.
* RoyalBlood: Princess Ozma
* StrawFeminist: General Jinjur. Note this in contrast to the matriarchal army of the South, composed entirely of women, who came to overthrow her rule of the Emerald City. An army relying on your enemies not hitting girls had some serious drawbacks in retrospect. It is interesting to note that Baum's wife was herself the daughter of a prominent early feminist, Matilda Gage. Jinjur is an obvious poke at the sort of pie in the sky "suffragette" who thought feminism meant "women in charge" while preserving the DoubleStandard where it suited them.
* TakenForGranite: Tip escapes the clutches of the sorceress Mombi before she can turn him into a statue.
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Subverted; Tip openly recognizes himself as the "creator" of Jack Pumpkinhead, and does his best to look out for him when appropriate. He does feel uncomfortable with Jack's insistence in calling him "father".
* VelvetRevolution: General Jinjur's Army of Revolt overtake the Emerald City and force the Scarecrow to abdicate the throne using nothing but sewing needles and relying on the fact that Oz's (single person) army WouldntHitAGirl. A few people get poked with needles but that is the extent of the violence. Later in the story, [[spoiler: the armies of Glinda the Good surround the city in a standoff, but Jinjur surrenders without violence, allowing the rightful Princess Ozma to take the throne.]]
